User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Getting into the details
- About this manual
- VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
- The Project window
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- The Arranger track
- Folder tracks
- Using markers
- The Transpose functions
- The mixer
- Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- Introduction
- VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
- VST Instrument channels
- Instrument tracks
- Comparison
- Automation considerations
- What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument track?
- Instrument Freeze
- VST instruments and processor load
- Using presets for VSTi configuration
- About latency
- External instruments (Cubase only)
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- VST Sound
- The MediaBay
- Track Presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Automation
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- MIDI processing and quantizing
- The MIDI editors
- The Logical Editor, Transformer and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor
- Working with System Exclusive messages
- Working with the Tempo track
- The Project Browser
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing
- How the Score Editor works
- The basics
- About this chapter
- Preparations
- Opening the Score Editor
- The project cursor
- Page Mode
- Changing the Zoom factor
- The active staff
- Making page setup settings
- Designing your work space
- About the Score Editor context menus
- About dialogs in the Score Editor
- Setting key, clef and time signature
- Transposing instruments
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- About this chapter
- About transcription
- Getting the parts ready
- Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
- Staff settings
- The Main tab
- The Options tab
- The Polyphonic tab
- The Tablature tab
- Situations which require additional techniques
- Inserting display quantize changes
- Strategies: Adding display quantize changes
- The Explode function
- Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”
- Entering and editing notes
- About this chapter
- Score settings
- Note values and positions
- Adding and editing notes
- Selecting notes
- Moving notes
- Duplicating notes
- Cut, copy and paste
- Editing pitches of individual notes
- Changing the length of notes
- Splitting a note in two
- Working with the Display Quantize tool
- Split (piano) staves
- Strategies: Multiple staves
- Inserting and editing clefs, keys or time signatures
- Deleting notes
- Staff settings
- Polyphonic voicing
- About this chapter
- Background: Polyphonic voicing
- Setting up the voices
- Strategies: How many voices do I need?
- Entering notes into voices
- Checking which voice a note belongs to
- Moving notes between voices
- Handling rests
- Voices and display quantize
- Creating crossed voicings
- Automatic polyphonic voicing - Merge All Staves
- Converting voices to tracks - Extract Voices
- Additional note and rest formatting
- Working with symbols
- Working with chords
- Working with text
- Working with layouts
- Working with MusicXML
- Designing your score: additional techniques
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Printing and exporting pages
- Frequently asked questions
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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File handling
The following options are available:
Cubase Open Document Options Dialog
This dialog will open in two cases:
• If you launch Cubase with the option “Show Open Op-
tions Dialog” selected on the “On Startup” pop-up menu
in the Preferences (General page).
• If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while launching Cu-
base.
The Open Document Options Dialog.
The dialog lists your recently used projects.
• To open a project, select it and click the “Open Selec-
tion” button.
• To open another project not listed here, click the “Open
Other…” button.
A file dialog opens that allows you to look for the desired file on your disk.
• To create a new project, click the “New Project” button.
Working with libraries (Cubase only)
A library is a stand-alone Pool that is not associated with a
project file (for more information about Pools, see “The
Pool” on page 270). You can use libraries to store sound
effects, loops, video clips, etc., and transfer media from a
library into a project by using drag and drop. The following
library functions are available on the File menu:
New Library
Creates a new library. Just as when creating new projects,
you will be asked to specify a project folder for the new li-
brary (in which media files will be stored). The library will
show up as a separate Pool window in Cubase.
Open Library
Opens a file dialog for opening a saved library file.
Save Library
Opens a file dialog for saving the library file (file extension
“.npl”).
Revert
If you select “Revert” from the File menu, you will be asked
whether you really want to revert to the last saved version
of the project. If you click “Revert”, all changes you have
made since saving will be discarded.
If you have recorded or created new audio files since sav-
ing, you will be asked whether you want to delete or keep
these.
Option Description
Do Nothing Cubase launches without opening a project.
Open Last
Project
The last saved project is opened on launch.
Open ’Default’
Template
The default template is opened, see “Setting up a default
template” on page 451.
Show Open
Dialog
The Open dialog opens on launch, allowing you to manu-
ally locate and open the desired project.
Show Template
Dialog
The Template dialog opens on launch, allowing you to
create a new project from one of the templates.
Show Open
Options Dialog
The Open Document Options dialog opens on launch,
see below. It allows you to make a different choice each
time you launch Cubase.